Design Talk: Responding to Criticism
As a designer, criticism is an inevitable nuisance. I remember on my first blog I received a comment about one of my tutorials. At the time I didn't get a lot of comments on my blog so any comment was
How to Save Your Artwork for Older Adobe Illustrator Models
A few months ago, I learned the hard way the importance of saving your artwork for older Illustrator models when I sold my first pattern and got an email asking if I could make the design file available for a
New Products in the Shop!
I am starting to get swamped by homework for grad school and haven't had time to come up with and develop a new blog post this week so I thought I would shamelessly self-promote my shop so I don't add
How to Make Quick Variations of Similar Design Elements in Adobe Illustrator
When you make patterns, you often may want to fill the pattern with small filler elements that repeat all over the pattern. Instead of drawing out different variations of that filler pattern, it's a lot easier to make one version
Design Talk #2: Stealing Others Designs
I don't want this series to be all about taking things that aren't yours and repurposing them as your own, but I have been seeing a lot of videos of people having to deal with their content being stolen and
Etsy vs Creative Market: Opening A shop (Part 2)
As most of you may already know, I recently started selling my designs on Creative Market and Etsy and wanted to write a post comparing the two websites strictly on their ease of use when opening a shop. This isn't
Etsy vs Creative Market: Opening A shop (Part 1)
As most of you may already know, I recently started selling my designs on Creative Market and Etsy and wanted to write a post comparing the two websites strictly on their ease of use when opening a shop. This isn't
